❌ Issue #158 | 12 January 2025

▪️ AWS Region new region Thailand ap-southeast-7 with 3AZs
▪️ CodeBuild batch builds with reserved capacity and Lambda compute
▪️ Compute Optimizer idle and rightsizing recommendations for EC2 Auto Scaling groups
▪️ Connect Contact Lens
     ▫️agent performance evaluations for email contacts
     ▫️free trials for conversational analytics and performance evaluations
▪️ DynamoDB configurable point-in-time-recovery periods
▪️ End User Messaging self-service sender ID registration support +19 countries
▪️ Local Zone in New York City | GA
▪️ Marketplace disbursement pause notifications
▪️ MSK Connect PrivateLink support
▪️ RDS Preview Environment for MariaDB Innovation Release 11.7
▪️ SageMaker Code Editor IDE Q Developer
▪️ Systems Manager +20 runbook recommendations in Chatbot

📰 AWS Weekly – Issue #159 | 19 January 2025

▪️ Billing accepts payments in 8 new local currencies
▪️ CloudFormation User Notifications | GA
▪️ CodeBuild test splitting and parallelism
▪️ Connect Contact Lens
     ▫️configurable groupings and filters in dashboards
     ▫️new real-time dashboard
▪️ Connect
     ▫️outbound campaigns can connect a call with an agent in under 2 seconds
     ▫️persistent agent connections for faster call handling | Preview
▪️ Customer Carbon Footprint Tool moved to a new dedicated page
▪️ EC2 Flex new larger instance sizes
▪️ EC2 Image Builder Windows ISO files to AMIs
▪️ ElastiCache Service Quotas
▪️ Elastic Beanstalk adds additional Spot allocation strategies
▪️ Elemental MediaTailor now supports log filtering
▪️ Encryption SDK Golang is now generally available
▪️ Management Console
     ▫️CodePipeline introduces new debugging experience
     ▫️simultaneous sign-in for multiple AWS accounts
▪️ Marketplace Tax Collection and Multiple Tax Profiles for Switzerland
▪️ MemoryDB now supports Service Quotas
▪️ MSK additional Graviton-3 (m7g) instance sizes for Express Brokers
▪️ MSK Connect updating connector configuration
▪️ Partner Connections multi-partner opportunities
▪️ Q Developer CloudZero plugin | GA
▪️ Redshift two new geospatial H3 Indexing functions
▪️ Resource Explorer +29 new resource types
▪️ S3 Tables +5 additional AWS Regions
▪️ Security Hub Route 53 Resolver DNS Firewall
▪️ Step Functions +36 services including AWS End User Messaging
▪️ WorkSpaces Personal and Core larger General Purpose bundles

🔄 Issue #160 | 26 January 2025

▪️ Aurora PostgreSQL Limitless Database v16.6
▪️ Bedrock Flows preview of multi-turn conversation
▪️ Bedrock
     ▫️Luma AI's Ray2 visual AI model
     ▫️multimodal support for Cohere Embed 3 Multilingual and Embed 3 English
▪️ Client VPN concurrent VPN connections
▪️ CloudWatch
     ▫️allows alarming on data up to 7 days old
     ▫️execution plan capture for Aurora PostgreSQL
▪️ CloudWatch Observability one step onboarding for EKS workloads
▪️ Connect
     ▫️audio optimization for Citrix and WorkSpaces virtual desktops
     ▫️daily headcount projections in capacity plan downloads
▪️ Corretto January 2025 quarterly updates
▪️ Edge Location in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
▪️ EKS and Amazon EKS Distro version 1.32
▪️ ElastiCache 1-click connectivity setup between EC2 and your cache
▪️ Elastic Beanstalk
     ▫️default support of EC2 Launch Template
     ▫️better scaling and deployment speeds for Windows with EC2 Fast-launch
▪️ EventBridge direct delivery to cross-account targets
▪️ IoT SiteWise null and NaN data types
▪️ Marketplace
     ▫️8 decimal place precision for usage pricing
     ▫️automated version archiving for AMI and container products
▪️ Neptune open-source GraphRAG toolkit
▪️ Q Business insights from images uploaded in chat
▪️ Redshift
     ▫️History Mode for zero-ETL integrations
     ▫️new SQL features for zero-ETL integrations
▪️ Resource Groups +172 more resource types
▪️ SNS FIFO Topics high-throughput mode
▪️ Transfer Family custom directory locations to store AS2 files

📌 Issue #161 | 2 February 2025

▪️ Amazon Lex Assisted Slot Resolution regions and model access
▪️ Amplify TypeScript Data client in server-side AWS Lambda functions
▪️ AppStream 2.0 admin consent for linking OneDrive for Business
▪️ Availability Zones supports Zone Groups
▪️ CloudWatch Database Insights historical OS process snapshots
▪️ CloudWatch Synthetics IPv6 support
▪️ CodeBuild project ARN and build ARN IAM condition keys
▪️ Connect agent time off scheduling up to 24 months in the future
▪️ Connect Cases more granular search and customizable case list views
▪️ DataSync Kerberos authentication
▪️ Deadline Cloud
     ▫️configurable limits to effectively manage fixed resources
     ▫️Maxon Cinema 4D and Maxon Redshift
▪️ EBS new resource-level permissions for creating EBS volumes from snapshots
▪️ EKS managed node groups introduces new update strategies
▪️ Elastic Beanstalk
     ▫️.NET 9 on Amazon Linux 2023
     ▫️PHP 8.4 on Amazon Linux 2023
     ▫️Python 3.13 on Amazon Linux 2023
▪️ Elemental MediaConnect content quality metrics
▪️ Elemental MediaTailor bring your own ads (BYOA) via VAST responses
▪️ EMR Serverless Public Subnets
▪️ EventBridge event source discovery in the console
▪️ Glue connectivity to 14 native connectors for applications
▪️ Health IPv6 support
▪️ Lex Global Resiliency CloudFormation and existing alias replication
▪️ Managed Notifications
     ▫️general availability
     ▫️support in Console Mobile App
▪️ Managed Service for Prometheus cross-account ingestion
▪️ Marketplace
     ▫️self-service listing for AMI products with CloudFormation templates
     ▫️self-service seller onboarding for demo and private offer requests
▪️ Q Developer
     ▫️agent now runs builds and tests to validate generated code in real time
     ▫️Pro tier adds automated user onboarding emails
▪️ Q in QuickSight Dashboard Q&A
▪️ RDS Custom for SQL Server up to 64TiB and 256K IOPS with io2 volumes
▪️ Redshift
     ▫️enhanced default security configurations for new warehouses
     ▫️enhanced query monitoring
▪️ S3 Metadata is GA
▪️ S3 Tables 10,000 tables per table bucket
▪️ S3 Tables schema definition support to the CreateTable API
▪️ SES Mail Manager address and domain lists
▪️ Timestream for InfluxDb Storage Scaling

🛡 Issue #162 | 9 February 2025

▪️ AppSync CDK L2 constructs to simplify creating WebSocket APIs
▪️ Batch access control and management of Batch on EKS
▪️ CloudFormation stack seamless refactoring
▪️ CodeBuild integrates with Buildkite
▪️ Connect agent state config management
▪️ Connect Cases conditionally required fields
▪️ Connect Contact Lens automatically email agents about completed performance evaluations
▪️ Cost Optimization Hub more EC2 Auto Scaling group recommendations
▪️ Database Migration Service Serverless S3 source endpoint | GA
▪️ Data Lifecycle Manager IPv6 support
▪️ DocumentDB one-click connectivity with CloudShell
▪️ EC2 automated recovery of MS SQL Server with VSS
▪️ Elemental MediaTailor new log destinations and lower cost
▪️ FSx IPv6 support on FSx Service APIs
▪️ GuardDuty Malware Protection for S3 price reduction
▪️ IAM Identity Center improved error messages and CloudTrail logging
▪️ IAM support for encrypted SAML assertions
▪️ Marketplace Channel Partner private offers custom payment schedules
▪️ Personalize IPv6 support
▪️ Q Business orchestration for user query management
▪️ Q Developer simplified setup experience for Pro tier subscriptions
▪️ Q Developer troubleshoots Console errors in all Commercial regions
▪️ RDS for Oracle January 2025 Release Update
▪️ RDS for SQL Server new minor version in December 2024
▪️ Step Functions 100K state machines and activities per AWS account
▪️ Step Functions expands data source and output options for Distributed Map
▪️ Toolkit for VS Code now supports Amazon DocumentDB
▪️ Verified Access Zero Trust access to resources over non-HTTP(S) protocols
▪️ Wickr dedicated space to organize and access files

📌 Issue #163 | 16 February 2025

▪️ AppSync
    ▫️ Comprehensive context object mocking
    ▫️ GraphQL operation-level caching for faster GraphQL API responses
▪️ CloudFormation support for Transfer Family web apps
▪️ CloudTrail network activity events for VPC endpoints | GA
▪️ CloudWatch Application Signals Runtime Metrics for .NET Applications
▪️ CloudWatch lock contention diagnostics for Aurora PostgreSQL
▪️ CodePipeline adds CloudWatch Metrics support
▪️ Connect Contact Lens
    ▫️ automated actions based on hold times and agent interaction time
    ▫️ dashboard with aggregated insights on agent performance evaluations
▪️ Deadline Cloud Adobe After Effects in Service-Managed Fleets
▪️ DynamoDB auto-approval of quota adjustments
▪️ ECS update services from short to long ARNs
▪️ EFS up to 10,000 access points per EFS file system
▪️ EKS Secrets and Configuration Provider for Pod Identity
▪️ EBS full snapshot size information in Console and API
▪️ FSx for Lustre now supports Lustre version upgrades
▪️ HealthScribe GIRPP note template for behavioral health
▪️ Inspector enhances the security engine for container images scanning
▪️ Lambda APM for Java and .NET runtimes via Application Signals
▪️ Network Load Balancer removing availability zones
▪️ Polly new voice in Singaporean English
▪️ Q Developer upgrade to Java 21
▪️ RDS for MySQL Extended Support minor 5.7.44-RDS.20250103
▪️ RDS for PostgreSQL minor versions 17.3, 16.7, 15.11, 14.16, 13.19
▪️ RDS for SQL Server new minor version in January 2025
▪️ Redshift Serverless reduction in IP Address Requirements to 3 per Subnet
▪️ SES tiered pricing for Virtual Deliverability Manager

➡️ Issue #164 | 23 February 2025

▪️ Amplify Hosting IAM roles for SSR apps
▪️ AppStream 2.0 Certificate-Based Authentication for multi-session fleets
▪️ Billing
    ▫️ Backup Payment Methods for invoices
    ▫️ China UnionPay credit card to create an AWS account
▪️ CodePipeline
    ▫️ native Amazon EC2 deployment support
    ▫️ native Amazon EKS deployment support
▪️ Data Firehose delivery streams CDK L2 construct
▪️ DMS Multi-ENI networking for homogeneous migrations
▪️ DMS Serverless comprehensive premigration assessments
▪️ ECS higher CPU limit for ECS tasks to 192 vCPUs
▪️ Elastic Beanstalk Windows Server 2025 environments
▪️ EMR dynamic reconfiguration for instance fleets
▪️ Lake Formation with EMR on EKS fine-grained access control
▪️ MSK Kafka version 3.8
▪️ Network Firewall automated domain lists and insights
▪️ Price List API supports AWS PrivateLink
▪️ SES Outbound now delivers to Mail Manager Archives
▪️ Timestream for InfluxDB Read Replica support
▪️ WAF Data Protection and logging experience

⏲ Issue #165 | 2 March 2025

▪️ Batch resource aware scheduling
▪️ Bedrock
     ▫️ Amazon Nova Creative Models now in Asia Pacific
     ▫️ Amazon Nova understanding models now in Europe and Asia Pacific
     ▫️ Claude 3.7 Sonnet
     ▫️ Session Management APIs | Preview
▪️ Bedrock Guardrails increase in service quota limits
▪️ Chatbot is now named Amazon Q Developer
▪️ Cloudwatch Application Signals cross-account application monitoring
▪️ CloudWatch Database Insights
     ▫️ support for RDS databases
     ▫️ on-demand analysis for RDS MySQL/MariaDB
▪️ CodeBuild
     ▫️ managed runners for GitLab Self-Managed
     ▫️ managed webhooks in GitHub Enterprise
     ▫️ merging parallel test reports and new compute options
     ▫️ support for macOS 15.2
▪️ CodePipeline new console experience for viewing pipeline releases
▪️ Connect
     ▫️ agents to exchange shifts with each other
     ▫️ interactive welcome messages when starting chats
     ▫️ reduces telephony pricing in Vietnam
▪️ Data Lifecycle Manager now supports AWS PrivateLink
▪️ EC2 Fleet Block Device Mapping overrides
▪️ EC2 Time-based Copy for AMIs
▪️ ECS additional IAM condition keys
▪️ EKS Anywhere extended support for Kubernetes versions
▪️ Elastic Beanstalk
     ▫️ Corretto 17 and 21 with Tomcat 11
     ▫️ Ruby 3.4 on Amazon Linux 2023
▪️ IoT Device Defender certificate lifecycle management
▪️ Location Service now supports AWS PrivateLink
▪️ Network Firewall enhanced policy management and console features
▪️ Q Business M365 for Word and Outlook integrations
▪️ RDS for Db2 now supports M7i and R7i instances types
▪️ RDS for Oracle Spatial Patch Bundle for January 2025
▪️ RDS visibility into IAM DB Authentication metrics and logs
▪️ SageMaker Canvas Q Developer is now GA
▪️ Verified Permissions Cedar JSON entity format
▪️ WAF enhances integration with Service Quotas

ℹ️ Issue #166 | 9 March 2025

▪️ Amplify HttpOnly cookies for server-rendered Next.js
▪️ API Gateway HTTP APIs, mTLS, multi-level base path mappings, and WAF in more regions
▪️ Application Load Balancer integration with VPC IPAM
▪️ Bedrock
     ▫️ Data Automation | GA
     ▫️ latency-optimized inference for Nova Pro FM
▪️ Bedrock Knowledge Bases supports GraphRAG | GA
▪️ Bottlerocket
     ▫️ default bootstrap container image
     ▫️ NVIDIA Multi-Instance GPU (MIG) for Kubernetes workloads
     ▫️ supports Neuron accelerated instance types
▪️ CloudWatch RUM resource-based policy support for data ingestion access
▪️ CodeBuild
     ▫️ Node 22, Python 3.13, and Go 1.23
     ▫️ non-container builds in on-demand fleets
▪️ CodeConnections Sharing of Connections
▪️ Cognito access token customization for M2M authorization flows
▪️ Connect Contact Lens dynamically update the questions on an evaluation form
▪️ Connect
     ▫️ multiple agent proficiencies in a single routing step
     ▫️ outbound campaigns now supports Brazil
▪️ EKS envelope encrypts all Kubernetes API data by default
▪️ FSx for NetApp ONTAP no longer charges for SnapLock licensing
▪️ GameLift Streams
▪️ HealthOmics NVIDIA L4 and L40S GPUs and expanded CPU options
▪️ IAM Access Analyzer IPv6 support
▪️ IoT Device Management managed integrations | Preview
▪️ IoT SiteWise MQTT enabled SiteWise Edge gateways
▪️ Lambda CloudWatch Logs Live Tail in VS Code IDE
▪️ Lex Confirmation and Alphanumeric slot types for Korean
▪️ Outposts high throughput, network-intensive workloads | Preview
▪️ Q Business insights from audio and video data
▪️ Q Developer new CLI agent
▪️ Redshift Data API SSO with IAM Identity Center
▪️ SageMaker Hyperpod Flexible Training Plans instant start times and multiple offers
▪️ Secrets Manager higher API Requests per Second limits
▪️ SES Vade advanced email security Add On for Mail Manager
▪️ Step Functions Workflow Studio for the VS Code IDE
▪️ Transfer Family reduced login latency for SFTP servers
▪️ WAF JA4 fingerprinting and aggregation on JA3 and JA4 fingerprints for rate-based rules
▪️ WorkSpaces Pools FIPS 140-2 validated endpoints

ℹ️ Issue #167 | 16 March 2025

▪️ Amplify Hosting deployment skew protection support
▪️ AppSync Events publishing over WebSocket for real-time pub/sub
▪️ Aurora PostgreSQL Redshift zero-ETL multiple integrations
▪️ Backup logically air-gapped vault support for FSx
▪️ Bedrock
     ▫️ DeepSeek-R1
     ▫️ Llama 3.2 fine-tuning
     ▫️ multi-agent collaboration
▪️ CodeBuild organization and enterprise level GitHub self-hosted runners
▪️ CodeConnections support for new condition key
▪️ CodePipeline
     ▫️ CodeBuild and Commands rule for stage level condition
     ▫️ invoking pipeline execution with a new action type
▪️ Config EC2 Allowed AMIs
▪️ Connect global telephony coverage
▪️ Data Firehose real-time streaming data into Amazon S3 Tables
▪️ ECR ECR to ECR pull through cache
▪️ ECS GPU-Optimized AMI for Amazon Linux 2023
▪️ EMR on EKS EKS Pod Identity
▪️ EMR Serverless FedRAMP High authorization
▪️ EventBridge IAM execution role support to all targets
▪️ GameLift Servers Game Server Wrapper for rapid onboarding
▪️ Glue Data Catalog views with AWS Glue 5.0
▪️ Inspector ECR support for minimal container base images and enhanced detections
▪️ Kinesis Data Streams IPv6 support
▪️ Open Source Serverless Land Patterns in VS Code
▪️ RDS for MySQL Extended Support minor 5.7.44-RDS.20250213
▪️ RDS for SQL Server new minor version in February 2025
▪️ Route 53 Traffic Flow new visual editor to improve DNS policy editing
▪️ S3 Access Grants simplify authentication when using both IAM and Identity Provider permissions
▪️ S3 Tables
     ▫️ Apache Iceberg REST Catalog APIs
     ▫️ create and query table support in the S3 console
     ▫️ integration with SageMaker Lakehouse | GA
▪️ SageMaker Inference rolling update for inference component endpoints
▪️ SageMaker Unified Studio Bedrock’s capabilities | GA
▪️ SageMaker Unified Studio | GA
▪️ Service Reference Information resources and condition keys
▪️ Verified Access FedRAMP High and Moderate authorization
▪️ WAF PCI DSS4.0 compliance protection with partner solutions
▪️ Wickr new Admin Console

📌 Issue #169 | 30 March 2025

▪️ Amplify Hosting WAF Protection | GA
▪️ Amplify
    ▫️ samples to Deploy Storage Browser for S3
     ▫️ Shared Keychain support for Swift
▪️ Application Recovery Controller FIS recovery action for zonal autoshift
▪️ Bedrock Custom Model Import introduces real-time cost transparency
▪️ Bedrock Guardrails industry-leading image content filters | GA
▪️ Bedrock Knowledge Bases Opensearch Managed Cluster for vector storage
▪️ CloudFormation targeted resource scans in the IaC generator
▪️ CodeBuild custom cache keys for S3 caching
▪️ Connected Mobility Solution new features
▪️ Database Insights customization of its metrics dashboard
▪️ DataZone metadata rules for publishing
▪️ Dedicated Local Zones gp3 and io1 ebs volumes
▪️ DMS Schema Conversion IBM Db2 for z/OS to RDS for Db2 conversion
▪️ DynamoDB percentile statistics for request latency
▪️ DynamoDB Streams PrivateLink support
▪️ EC2 more bandwidth and jumbo frames to select destinations
▪️ EKS enforces upgrade insights checks as part of cluster upgrades
▪️ Elemental MediaConnect NDI® outputs
▪️ EventBridge Scheduler PrivateLink support
▪️ GameLift Servers next-gen EC2 instances
▪️ IAM dual-stack (IPv4 and IPv6) environments
▪️ Keyspaces Multi-Region support for User Defined Types (UDTs)
▪️ Lambda Ruby 3.4
▪️ Marketplace new seller experiences for ML products
▪️ Network Firewall pass action rule alerts and JA4 filtering
▪️ Network Manager support PrivateLink and IPv6
▪️ Open Source Corretto 24 | GA
▪️ Parallel Computing Service Terraform support
▪️ Polly New Korean voice
▪️ Q Business upgrades for Slack and Teams Integrations
▪️ Q in QuickSight Scenarios capability | GA
▪️ RDS for MySQL Innovation Release 9.2 in Preview Environment
▪️ RDS for SQL Server linked servers to Teradata databases
▪️ Route 53 Profiles IPv6 Service Endpoints
▪️ SageMaker HyperPod multi-head node support in Slurm
▪️ SageMaker metadata rules to enforce standards and improve data governance

⏲ Issue #170 | 6 April 2025
▪️ API Gateway support for dual-stack (IPv4 and IPv6) endpoints
▪️ App Studio prebuilt solutions catalog and cross-instance Import and Export
▪️ Backup support for Redshift Serverless
▪️ Billing & Cost Management MFA is required for new card registration in Japan
▪️ CDK
     ▫️ CDK L2 Construct for Cognito Identity Pools | GA
     ▫️ Construct Library for EventBridge Scheduler | GA
▪️ Clean Rooms Spark SQL aggregation and list analysis rules
▪️ CloudFront VPC Origin modification with CloudFront Functions
▪️ CloudWatch Application Signals Monitor service dependencies with SLOs
▪️ CloudWatch Logs maximum log event size to 1 MB
▪️ Connect
     ▫️ additional Dual-Tone Multi-Frequency (DTMF) configuration
     ▫️ agent’s adherence work schedules in a calendar view
     ▫️ supervisors to take additional actions on in-progress chats
▪️ Connect Contact Lens
     ▫️ conversational analytics in 34 new languages
     ▫️ enable or disable sentiment analysis
▪️ EKS
     ▫️ Bottlerocket FIPS AMIs in Managed Node Groups
     ▫️ new catalog of community add-ons
▪️ Elastic Beanstalk get secrets and configs from Secrets/Systems Manager
▪️ Elemental MediaLive Anywhere SMPTE 2110 inputs
▪️ Elemental MediaTailor new pricing model with lower VOD ad insertion costs
▪️ End User Messaging phone number registration +18 new countries
▪️ IAM Identity Center sessions and TIP management for MS AD
▪️ IoT Device SDK for Swift | Developer Preview
▪️ Marketplace
     ▫️ Japan Marketplace Facilitator Rule
     ▫️ VAT and supports Korean Won
▪️ Neptune 99.99% availability Service Level Agreement
▪️ OpenSearch Ingestion pipelines enhanced autoscaling
▪️ OpenSearch Service Q Developer | GA
▪️ Outposts Asset level capacity management
▪️ Payment Cryptography exchanging cryptographic keys using ECDH
▪️ Q Business Browser Extension
▪️ QuickSight
     ▫️ dashboard versioning and publish any analysis to any dashboard
     ▫️ now supports Highlighting
     ▫️ embedded Q
     ▫️ scheduling and alerts in embedded dashboards
▪️ RAM IPv6 support
▪️ RDS for PostgreSQL
     ▫️ configurable cipher suites
     ▫️ Extended Support for 11.22-rds.20250220, 12.22-rds.20250220
▪️ RDS Proxy TLS 1.3 support for PostgreSQL on Aurora and RDS
▪️ Resource Explorer +32 resource types
▪️ SageMaker +9 visual ETL transforms
▪️ Security Lake
     ▫️ achieves FedRamp High and Moderate authorization
     ▫️ IPv6 support
▪️ SES attachments in sending APIs
▪️ SES Mail Manager incoming connections from VPCs via PrivateLink
▪️ SNS IPv6 support
▪️ Step Functions SDK integrations with Backup Search , +137 additional APIs
▪️ VPC Route Server | GA

ℹ️ Issue #171 | 13 April 2025

▪️ Aurora
     ▫️ pgvector 0.8.0 in PostgreSQL
     ▫️ PostgreSQL 16.8, 15.12, 14.17 and 13.20
▪️ Bedrock Guardrails new capabilities to build gen AI apps
▪️ Bedrock Knowledge Bases hybrid search for Aurora PostgreSQL and MongoDB Atlas vector stores
▪️ Bedrock
     ▫️ new S2S model Nova Sonic
     ▫️ Nova Canvas now supports fine-tuning
     ▫️ Nova Reel 1.1
     ▫️ Pixtral Large 25.02, a multimodal model from Mistral AI
     ▫️ prompt caching | GA
▪️ CodeBuild
     ▫️ enhanced debugging experience
     ▫️ Node 22, Python 3.13 and Go 1.24 to Lambda Compute images
▪️ Config +223 rules in Control Tower
▪️ Connect set voice and language dynamically in a contact flow
▪️ Corretto April 2025 Quarterly Updates
▪️ Cost Optimization Hub DynamoDB and MemoryDB reservation recommendations
▪️ EC2 I7ie new bare metal instances sizes
▪️ ElastiCache for Memcached
     ▫️ horizontal autoscaling
     ▫️ vertical scaling
▪️ Elemental Link HD ingest rates as Link HD enters end of sale
▪️ End User Messaging IPv6 support
▪️ EventBridge Archive and Replay with Customer Managed KMS Keys
▪️ FSx for NetApp ONTAP Autonomous Ransomware Protection
▪️ Gateway Load Balancer Capacity Unit Reservation
▪️ IAM Identity Center new SDK plugin
▪️ Lex control intent switching during conversations
▪️ Mainframe Modernization advanced operations for runtime environments
▪️ Marketplace new fulfillment experience for container products
▪️ PartyRock Image Playground by Nova Canvas
▪️ Q Developer expands multi-language support within the IDE and CLI
▪️ RDS for Oracle M6id and R6id instances
▪️ S3 Express One Zone reduces storage and request prices
▪️ SageMaker Catalog precise technical identifier search
▪️ SageMaker JumpStart Meta’s Llama 4
▪️ SageMaker Studio recovery mode for applications
▪️ SAM API Gateway Custom Domain Names for private REST APIs
▪️ Transfer Family
     ▫️ new config opts for SFTP connectors
     ▫️ SFTP connectors can now delete, rename or move files
▪️ VPC simplified billing for Peering
▪️ Well-Architected Tool New Guidance

ℹ️ Issue #172 | 20 April 2025

▪️ Amazon Q GitLab Duo | GA
▪️ Application Migration Service authorized for DoD Impact Level 4 and 5
▪️ Batch ECS Exec and AWS FireLens log router
▪️ Bedrock RAG and Model Evaluations now support custom metrics
▪️ Billing customers in Europe to now can pay for their usage in advance
▪️ CloudFront Anycast Static IPs support for apex domains
▪️ CloudWatch agent adds support for SELinux
▪️ CloudWatch ROSA support
▪️ Connect Cases managing service level agreements on cases
▪️ Connect Contact Lens access controls using agent hierarchies
▪️ Console Mobile Application support for Amazon Lightsail
▪️ ECS default log driver blocking mode
▪️ EventBridge Connector Kafka Connect | GA
▪️ EventBridge CMK in API destinations connections
▪️ HealthOmics Elastic Throughput for dynamic run storage
▪️ HealthOmics workflow versioning support
▪️ Lambda@Edge advanced logging controls
▪️ Lambda inbound IPv6 connectivity over AWS PrivateLink
▪️ Managed Service for Prometheus label-based active series limits
▪️ MemoryDB IPv6 support
▪️ OpenSearch Service SAML single sign-on for OpenSearch UI
▪️ Q Business hallucination mitigation in chat responses
▪️ S3 Tables SSE using KMS with customer-managed keys
▪️ Security Incident Response integration with AWS PrivateLink
▪️ STS requests now routed locally via global endpoint
▪️ Verified Permissions policy store deletion protection
▪️ Well-Architected Generative AI Lens

🛡 Issue #173 | 27 April 2025

▪️ Account Management IAM-based account name updates
▪️ AppConfig IPv6 support
▪️ AppSync Events data source integrations for channel namespaces
▪️ Bedrock Data Automation modality controls, hyperlinks and larger docs
▪️ Bedrock Intelligent Prompt Routing | GA
▪️ Bedrock Prompt Optimization | GA
▪️ CodeBuild EC2 instance type and configurable storage size
▪️ Cognito refresh token rotation
▪️ Connect agent workspace contact-related actions for 3rd party apps
▪️ Customer Carbon Footprint Tool new features and methodology
▪️ Deadline Cloud macOS installer for submitters
▪️ DMS Serverless automatic storage scaling
▪️ EBS resource-level permissions for copying EBS snapshots
▪️ EC2 new C8gd, M8gd, and R8gd instances
▪️ Kinesis Data Streams default shard limits to up to 20,000 per AWS account
▪️ MSK Kafka version 3.9
▪️ OpenSearch Ingestion guided visual pipeline builder
▪️ Q Business integrations for M365 Word and Outlook
▪️ Q Developer releases state of the art agent for feature development
▪️ Redshift history mode support to 8 third-party SaaS applications
▪️ Redshift Serverless Serverless Reservations
▪️ Resource Explorer PrivateLink support
▪️ Resource Groups +160 more resource types
▪️ SageMaker Lakehouse attribute based access control
▪️ SQS IPv6 Support
▪️ Thinkbox Deadline v10.4.1 release
▪️ Transfer Family Terraform module for deploying SFTP server endpoints

➡️ Issue #174 | 4 May 2025

▪️ Amplify
     ▫️ developer tooling with refined output and CDK-style notices
     ▫️ introduces data seeding
▪️ Aurora PostgreSQL major version 17
▪️ B2B Data Interchange IPv6 on B2B Data Interchange Service APIs
▪️ Bedrock
     ▫️ Meta’s Llama 4
     ▫️ Model Distillation | GA
     ▫️ Nova Premier
     ▫️ Palmyra X5 and X4 models
▪️ Budgets additional cost metrics and filtering capabilities
▪️ Clean Rooms multiple results receivers in a collaboration
▪️ Client VPN Client Routes Enforcement
▪️ CloudFront
     ▫️ Automated HTTP validated public certificates
     ▫️ SaaS Manager
▪️ CloudWatch tiered pricing and additional destinations for AWS Lambda logs
▪️ Cognito enhanced context support for machine-to-machine auth flows
▪️ Connect
     ▫️ administrator access for agent schedules
     ▫️ bulk removal of agent schedules
▪️ Connect Contact Lens new real-time adherence dashboard
▪️ Connect
     ▫️ enhanced contact information to DescribeContact API
     ▫️ post-contact completion events to Contact Event Stream
▪️ DynamoDB Accelerator R7i instances
▪️ EC2 I7i high performance Storage Optimized instances
▪️ EC2 Image Builder integrates with SSM Parameter Store
▪️ ECR IPv6 support
▪️ EKS Hybrid Nodes now supports Bottlerocket
▪️ ElastiCache Global Datastore in 15 additional Regions
▪️ Elastic Beanstalk controls for default security group management
▪️ Elemental MediaTailor recurring ad prefetch for live streaming
▪️ End User Messaging customers combat SMS pumping
▪️ Energy Data Insights Managed Support
▪️ HealthImaging DICOM video data and JPEG 2000 transcoding
▪️ Kinesis Data Streams tagging and ABAC for consumers
▪️ Launch Wizard multi-node SAP NetWeaver deployment on SAP ASE DB
▪️ MAP accelerate AI customer adoption
▪️ Neptune Database Graviton3 R7g and Graviton4 R8g instances
▪️ OpenSearch Service
     ▫️ AI search flow builder
     ▫️ version 2.19
▪️ Open Source New Open-Source Advanced PostgreSQL ODBC Driver
▪️ Outposts second-generation racks
▪️ Q Business Anonymous user access
▪️ Q Developer
     ▫️ CLI now supports MCP
     ▫️ new agentic coding experience in the IDE
     ▫️ Systems Manager node access approvals in chat
▪️ RDS on Outposts Generation 7i instance
▪️ Route 53 Profiles VPC endpoints
▪️ SageMaker scheduling experience for Visual ETL and Query editors
▪️ SES Mail Manager Publish to Amazon SNS Topic Rule Action
▪️ Systems Manager just-in-time node access
▪️ VPC IPAM cost distribution to AWS Organization member-accounts
▪️ VPC Lattice IPv6 for management endpoints

✅ Issue #175 | 11 May 2025

▪️ Aurora PostgreSQL Limitless Database v16.8
▪️ Bedrock Data Automation extraction of custom insights from audio
▪️ CloudWatch Network Monitoring multi-account support for flow monitors
▪️ CloudWatch RUM Interaction to Next Paint (INP) Web Vital
▪️ CodePipeline Secrets Manager and more configurations in Commands action
▪️ Connect
     ▫️ saudio optimization for Omnissa cloud desktops
     ▫️ sexternal voice pricing changes
     ▫️ soutbound campaigns now supports Poland
▪️ EBS Provisioned Rate for Volume Initialization
▪️ ECS 1-click rollbacks for service deployments
▪️ Marketplace SaaS products from all deployment locations
▪️ MSK certificate renewals on MSK Provisioned clusters
▪️ Payments Account Summary overview of AWS financial account balances
▪️ Q Developer integration in GitHub | Preview
▪️ RDS for Oracle Oracle Application Express (APEX) Version 24.2
▪️ Resource Explorer +41 new resource types
▪️ SageMaker additional visual ETL transforms and S3 tables support
▪️ SageMaker AI Q Developer with custom code suggestions and workspace context
▪️ SageMaker Catalog authorization policy for asset type usage
▪️ SageMaker HyperPod integrates EventBridge to deliver status change events
▪️ SageMaker three new data sources
▪️ SES IPv6 when calling SES outbound endpoints
▪️ SQS FIPS 140-3 enabled interface VPC endpoint
▪️ Systems Manager customization options for onboarding configuration
▪️ Verified Permissions policy store tagging
▪️ VPC Reachability Analyzer resource exclusion

🐧 Issue #176 | 18 May 2025

▪️ Bedrock Guardrails cross-region inference
▪️ CodeBuild support for remote Docker servers
▪️ CodePipeline
     ▫️ deploying to AWS Lambda with traffic shifting
     ▫️ Deploy Spec file in EC2 deploy action
▪️ Cognito OIDC prompt parameter
▪️ Control Tower account-level reporting for baseline APIs
▪️ Deadline Cloud service-managed fleets now support configuration scripts
▪️ EC2
     ▫️ EC2 Fast Launch
     ▫️ ENA queue allocation for your network interfaces
     ▫️ P6-B200 instances powered by NVIDIA B200 GPUs now generally available
▪️ ECS EBS Provisioned Rate for Volume Initialization
▪️ Glue Studio additional file types and single file output
▪️ HealthOmics output mapping files for CWL workflows
▪️ Kinesis Data Streams IPv6 support to VPC endpoints
▪️ Lightsail IPv6 connectivity over AWS PrivateLink
▪️ OpenSearch Ingestion increases memory for an OCU to 15 GB
▪️ Parallel Computing Service accounting with Slurm version 24.11
▪️ RDS Database Preview Environment PostgreSQL 18 Beta 1
▪️ SageMaker Catalog governance for S3 Tables
▪️ SageMaker
     ▫️ CloudFormation support for domain features
     ▫️ move project across domain units
     ▫️ Unified Studio now allows you to bring your own image (BYOI)
▪️ SageMaker Unified Studio Code Editor (VS Code based)
▪️ SES Mail Manager Debug Logging for traffic policies
▪️ Transform
     ▫️ Mainframe | GA
     ▫️ migration assessment capabilities
     ▫️ .NET | GA
     ▫️ VMware | GA
▪️ VPC CloudTrail logging for VPC resources created by default
▪️ WorkSpaces Pools AlwaysOn running mode

🖋 Issue #177 | 25 May 2025

▪️ Aurora Global Database up to 10 secondary Region clusters
▪️ Aurora reduces cross-Region Global DB Switchover under 30 seconds
▪️ AWS service changes, a dozen services EOL
▪️ Bedrock
    ▫️ Agents Metrics in CloudWatch
    ▫️ Claude 4
    ▫️ Data Automation generating custom insights from videos
▪️ CloudWatch Application Signals auto-monitor support for EKS workloads
▪️ CloudWatch Database Insights support for Aurora Limitless PostgreSQL
▪️ CloudWatch Synthetics safe canary updates and automatic retries
▪️ CodeBuild new IAM condition keys
▪️ Control Tower Enabled controls view for centralized visibility
▪️ Cost Anomaly Detection advanced alerting through AWS User Notifications
▪️ Deadline Cloud Foundry Nuke version 16
▪️ Deadline Cloud Monitor multiple languages support
▪️ DMS introduces Data Resync for improved migration accuracy
▪️ DynamoDB local is now accessible on AWS CloudShell
▪️ EC2 Mac configurable System Integrity Protection (SIP) settings
▪️ EC2 Public DNS names IPv6 support
▪️ EC2 Scheduled Events customer-initiated reboot migrations
▪️ ECS container exit reason message up to 1024 characters
▪️ EKS Dashboard cross-org/region multi-cluster view of EKS
▪️ HealthImaging
    ▫️ DICOMweb QIDO-RS search and enhanced data management
    ▫️ DICOMweb series level metadata retrievals
▪️ Inspector container security by mapping ECR images to running containers
▪️ Managed Service for Prometheus query insights and control capabilities
▪️ Marketplace Sellers can now receive disbursements for partially paid invoices
▪️ MSK Kafka version 4.0
▪️ Organizations IPv6 support
▪️ RDS Custom for Oracle R7i and M7i instances
▪️ RDS easy retrieval of engine lifecycle support dates
▪️ RDS for Oracle credential management with Secrets Manager
▪️ Transfer Family ML-KEM quantum-resistant key exchange for SFTP

⏲ Issue #178 | 1 June 2025

▪️ Amplify Hosting customizable build instances
▪️ Aurora DSQL is now generally available
▪️ AWS AMI RHEL 10
▪️ Backup
    ▫️ Aurora DSQL support
    ▫️ EC2 restores with custom volume configuration support
▪️ CDK Toolkit Library | GA
▪️ CloudTrail Lake event enrichment and expanded event size
▪️ CloudWatch Synthetics Java Runtime for Lightweight API Monitoring
▪️ Cost Explorer new Cost Comparison feature
▪️ Cost Optimization Hub Savings Plans and reservations preferences
▪️ DataSync accelerates cross-cloud data transfers
▪️ DocumentDB 99.99% Service Level Agreement
▪️ EKS and EKS Distro Kubernetes version 1.33
▪️ EKS configuration insights for Hybrid Nodes
▪️ EMR Spark capabilities for Lake Formation tables with full table access
▪️ FSx for Lustre new storage class
▪️ FSx for NetApp ONTAP write-back mode for FlexCache volumes
▪️ GameLift Servers SDKs are now on GitHub
▪️ IVS Real-Time Streaming participant replication
▪️ Managed Service for Prometheus 95 day time range queries
▪️ MWAA update environments without interrupting task execution
▪️ Neptune MCP Server
▪️ Network Firewall Adds Support for Multiple VPC Endpoints
▪️ Neuron NxD Inference GA, new features, and improved tools
▪️ OpenSearch Service support for Script Plugins
▪️ Pricing Calculator discounts and purchase commitment | GA
▪️ Redshift cluster relocation is on by default for RA3 clusters
▪️ S3 Express One Zone granular access controls with S3 Access Points
▪️ S3 Mountpoint automatically mount your S3 buckets using fstab
▪️ Secrets Manager support for cost allocation tags for secrets
▪️ Security Hub NIST SP 800-171 Revision 2
▪️ Serverless and Containers MCP Server